Pictured: (England) White Man throws raw bacon at Asian shopworker in racist attack

Mirror Uk

This is the moment a man ran into a petrol station and threw raw bacon at a worker in what is being treated as a racist attack.

Police have released a CCTV still of the bizarre incident, which happened at Pemberton services near Wigan at about 4.30am on Monday..

The attendant, who is Asian, was working alone in the station when the door opened and the offender threw the slice of raw bacon.

He then ran out of the shop and up Ormskirk Road towards Orrell.

The offender is described as being white, about 5ft 8in tall, of a medium build and with short dark hair.

He was wearing a bright green and black chequered snood covering the lower part of his face and head, a black jacket with two white stripes down each arm and a white line under the arms, baggy light blue jeans and dark trainers with white laces and a white rim around the bottom.

Police Constable Roy Lunio said: "Because of the connotations attached to the meat and the fact it was deliberately thrown at a Asian man, we are treating this as a racially motivated crime.